Contemporary English literature
A Dilnot
8 points * 2.5 hours per week * First semester * Clayton
The subject will examine representative examples of the dramatic, poetic and fictional genres from 1955 to the present.
Assessment
Participation: 10% * Seminar paper (1500 words): 20% * Short essay (1500 words): 20% * Long essay (3000 words): 50% * Examination: 50% * Students whose written work and participation in tutorials are satisfactory will be excused the examination
Prescribed texts
Couzyn J (ed.) The Bloodaxe book of contemporary women poets Bloodaxe
Garner Cosmo Cosmolino McPhee Gribble
Gems Three plays Penguin
Harrison T Selected poems Penguin
Heaney New selected poems, 1966-1987 Faber
Hodgins Dispossessed Angus and Robertson
Hughes Selected poems, 1957-1981 Faber
Ishiguro The remains of the day Faber
Lee (ed.) The secret self Everyman
McEwan The child in time Picador
Pinter Plays: two Methuen
Winton Cloudstreet Penguin